Child endangering conviction in scalding case

WARREN

Amanda C. Hall, who went on trial last week in Trumbull County Common Pleas Court, accused of holding a 19-month-old girl’s arm under scalding water, has been convicted of child endangering.

Hall, 31, of Northfield Avenue Northwest, could get up to eight years in prison when Judge John M. Stuard sentences her in about five weeks. She remains free on bond.

Judge Stuard, who heard the case without a jury, rendered the guilty verdict Thursday.

Hall was baby sitting Teiarra Houseman Oct. 14, 2010, at her house when the child received the burns, prosecutors said.

Hall said the girl turned on the scalding water herself after receiving a bath, but prosecutors said Hall recklessly tortured or abused Teiarra by purposely immersing her arm in hot water.

The girl suffered a burn on her hand and lower forearm that required treatment at Akron Children’s Hospital.

Now 2 1/2 years old, the girl has to keep her arm covered in hot and cold weather and isn’t allowed to go swimming, her grandmother, Ronda Scott, said.